The Divine Comedy
Martino Mardersteig, Leonard Baskin, New York, New York, 1969
Description
The book was designed to display the Leonard Baskin drawings on as large a sheet as possible while retaining readability of the text. While we originally had hoped to include the Italian text along with the English translation, the costs of so doing would have made he selling price too high.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1970)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designers
- Martino Mardersteig, Leonard Baskin
- Illustrator
- Leonard Baskin
- Author
- Dante Alighieri
- Translator
- Thomas G. Bergin
- Size
- 8.75 x 13 inches
- Pages
- Volume I—390 pages; Volume II—374 pages; Volume III—380 pages
- Quantity printed
- edition of 6,000
- Price
- $75.00
- Typeface
- English Monotype Dante, 14D/18D with display in English Monotype Titling
- Typesetter
- Stamperia Valdonega
- Printers
- Stamperia Valdonega, Meriden Gravure Company (illustrations)
- Printing methods
- Letterpress, offset (iillustrations)
- Paper
- Antiqua, specially made for this edition by Cartiera Favini of Rossano-Veneto, Italy
- Binder
- H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company, Inc.
- Binding materials
- bound in Bancroft Lynnene spine and Curtis Tweedweave Brown sides, on .098 binder’s board
- Paper supplies
- Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company, Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
- Binding method
- Smythe-sewn, round-backed
- Slipcase
- Brick and Ballerstein, Inc. in Curtis Tweedweave Brown, with labels printed by Silver-Laro Press
- Publisher
- Grossman Publishers, Inc.
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